The Colour of Hate – e-Book

Description

South Africa is a country of colour. The colour of the flowers in spring, in Namaqualand. The colour of snow, on the Drakensberg Mountains. The blue of our sky and seas, and the green in summer over the South African highveld. Then, there is the colour that dictates your station in life: the colour of your skin. In that milieu there is the perpetual conflict between black and white, which has metamorphosed into a new amalgam – the colour of hate. It is the colour of hate that has put Mariah Taaibosch to death.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Charles Nqakula was born at a small Karoo town in South Africa on 13 September 1942. After leaving school in 1963, he took up journalism and between 1966 and 1969 wrote a regular column for the Midland News. This weekly newspaper was printed and published in Cradock and circulated in the Midlands region, an area that covered the towns of Cradock, Somerset East, Graaff-Reinet, Adelaide, Bedford, Fort Beaufort and Middleburg. Nqakula later joined Imvo Zabantsundu (1973–76), which was based in King William’s Town, where he covered politics and sport. He left Imvo in mid-June 1976 to join the East London Daily Dispatch, but left in 1981 after being banned by the National Party government in July that year. He was a political activist involved in the underground activities of the African National Congress. At the time of his banning order, he was the Vice-President of the antigovernment Union of Black Journalists. He left the country for exile in 1984 and trained in 1985 in Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the ANC. After the advent of democracy in South Africa, Nqakula became Minister of Police in 2002 and Minister of Defence in 2008 but left government after the 2009 elections.